Today was a nice day. I woke up early to do some of my work before going to see the doctor. I drank 7 cups of water (7 x 300ml) within an hour. There were two main reasons - first, to make myself less hungry from having to skip breakfast, and secondly, to feel a bit healthier before the test. I had to do urine collection. Quite erm.. interesting, but involves great skill. I'm not going to elaborate further. Then the doctor drew some blood from my hand. I watched the needle poke it's way into my vein. It seemed unbelievable at first because if I ever did something like that, it would end up looking like a murder scene. Not that it was my first time, but the last time my blood was collected was about 10 years ago. My BP is still as high as before.

Went out with parents for lunch, accomplished a mission (shopping today), then church. After church, jy's dad picked me up. Jy and I went for a concert at ACSI, string ensemble. Chandini should have come. They sounded good, better than most ensembles. When, and will smss strings reach that standard? Time will tell..  It does take some time to build up a string ensemble, so I'm not expecting a miracle to happen overnight. It's even harder when there's a small pool of talent.

Anyway, they played John Rutter's Suite for Strings too (our SYF piece). Of course, it had good intonation and style. But I think it's common for string ensembles to want to play the piece super fast. Not a wrong interpretation, but those who play it at that speed have to posses the skill to do it musically well. It's just like if you want to speed while driving, you can, but make sure you have the skill to drive safely and not get caught.

Thanks, jy, for the invitation. I think you have finished reading the program booklet and laughed over it, or maybe still laughing. I hope it wasn't your bedtime story though.. And yes, school concerts aren't that bad after all. It was good music.